To study the effect of the AGN contribution on the morphological parameters
of their host galaxies in the local Universe, we used an initial sample of 8000
local galaxies visually classified in the g-band by [1]}. The authors used
the data from the Sloan Digital Sky
Surveyhttps://www.sdss.org/ (SDSS; [2]},
[3]}) Data Release 4 (DR4) down to an
extinction-corrected apparent magnitude of \(g<16\)  and in the redshift
range of \(0.01 \le z \le 0.1\)  (with a mean redshift of \(0.04\) ). The
galaxies were selected randomly out of \(\sim 14000\)  sources contained
in the [1]} catalogue, as explained in detail in
[5]}. To make sure that the selected sub-sample of local
galaxies is a fair representation of the parent sample, we compared the
two samples in terms of their general properties. In Fig. REF  we
show the distributions for both samples for the absolute magnitude in
g-band, morphology, star formation
rate (SFR), and stellar mass, where the last two parameters have been
obtained from the
MPA-JHUhttps://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/SDSS/ SDSS
catalogue [6]}, [7]}. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov
(KS) test for all comparison plots indicates that the maximum
deviation (D) between the two distributions is \(\sim \)  0, indicating
that the two samples are consistent.
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